Health Care Assistant

Do you want a career as a Health Care support worker in helping to make a difference? do you enjoy and thrive when working as a part of a multidisciplinary team? do you have excellent communication skills and enjoy being an advocate for vulnerable adults?
If so we are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our NHS family at Sandwell and west Birmingham NHS Trust across our specialist surgical services department. This includes our acute trauma and orthopaedic ward Newton 3 and our elective orthopaedic ward Lyndon 3.
As a Health Care support worker/ Health Care Assistant you will be supporting patients with their personal, tailored individual needs including washing, dressing and toileting, taking patient meal orders ensuring to order what is right for them, being able to identify different dietary needs such a soft diet, puree diet, vegetarians, halal etc.. serving meals and helping to feed patient who can no longer do this for themselves, helping patients to mobilise and to move around, making beds, monitoring patient conditions by carrying out observations, be able to use computers to input patient information onto our electronic record systems.
You must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate any concerns that you may have or if you feel as though a patient is deteriorating or doesn't seem right, you must be able to communicate with patients, doctors, therapists and patient families. you must be friendly and approachable and willing to learn.
At SWBH we thrive to achieve. Harnessing ambition, investment, commitment and the contribution of our people, out vision is to be the UK's best integrated care provider. We've trebled out training budget, enhanced the way we recognise our people and are constructing career pathway frameworks. our people have names, they have voices, they have family here at SWBH. We know where were going and we know that we won't get there alone. That's why we want you to join us.
Great care can change everything. Like you SWBH want to be a part of truly brilliant integrated care. and just like you we are ambitious about what we do. We are always seeking ways to do more and be better for our patients. Bring your dedication and determination here and you'll be surprised by just how great your career can be.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails,